Abby is a qualified archaeologist, historian, and trainer and assessor with over 16 years experience working in the cultural heritage industry in various capacities. She has a wide range of experience working on many diverse projects with Aboriginal communities and their representative organisations in urban, regional and remote areas of Australia. Abby has provided various Aboriginal cultural heritage advice and archaeological services to clients in Victoria for the past five years, and has also contributed to the heritage study of the Horsham Rural City Council (Stages 1 & 2) and wrote the Thematic Environmental History for Stage 1 of the West Wimmera Shire Heritage Study (2014).

Abby is a qualified Heritage Advisor under s.189 of the Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Act 2006 and a fully accredited Level 4 member of the Professional Historians Association (Vic). She is also a member of the Australian Archaeology Association (AAA), the Anthropological Society of South Australia (ASSA) and Oral History Victoria (OHV).

Lauren has experience in environmental assessments of contaminated sites and has worked as a research assistant in natural resource management. Her professional engagement in cultural heritage management builds on expertise in ecological and cultural heritage education in the Northern Territory, and natural resource management projects with Traditional Owner groups in the Murray Darling Basin. Lauren joined Cooper Heritage Management in mid-2017 as a Geomorphologist working on a range of cultural heritage projects. As a result of her experience across the sciences and humanities, she brings a diverse skill set to the heritage industry, which includes fieldwork, research, report writing and artefact analysis.

Lauren is an endorsed Heritage Advisor under s.189 of the Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Act 2006, and a member of the Geological Society of Australia, Australasian Quaternary Association and Australian Archaeological Association (AAA).